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Sangreal trilogy volume 1
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English
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The first book in a brand new trilogy from the author of Prospero's Children.
Bartlemy Goodman, is one of the Gifted. An albino of Greek parentage, he was born in Byzantium amidst the decline of the Roman Empire. He now resides at Thornyhill house, England, with his dog, Hoover.
One warm evening, a young homeless woman holding a baby turns up on Bartlemy's doorstep, and sensing destiny at work, he lets them stay. Annie and her son Nathan thrive...
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Welcome to Thorndale volume 4
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English
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Can the magic of Christmas and the community of Thorndale bring two lost souls together in love?
Olivia doesn't have time for Christmas or for romance, she's got a demanding career and has been burned before when it comes to love. This year, she's spending the festive season in her dad's old house, packing it up now that he's moved out. Her dad failed to mention she wouldn't be spending her time there alone...
The last thing Olivia expects is for...
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A startling novel by the leading writer of the new South Africa
As the novel opens Camugu, who left for America during apartheid, has returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that once they did so...
85) The good death
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"In 1349, Oswald, the third son of the de Lacy family, was an eighteen-year-old novice monk at Kintham Abbey. Sent to collect herbs from the forest, Oswald comes across a terrified village girl. Frenzied with fear, she runs headlong into a swollen river. Oswald pulls her broken and bruised body from the water and returns her to the local village, only to discover that several other women have disappeared. A heinous killer is at work, but because all...
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Tokens and omens volume 2
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English
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Seventeen-year-old twins Zander and Alexa struggle to prepare the village of Puck's Gulch to fight against a coming invasion, but their efforts are stymied by the prejudices and petty jealousies of the villagers.
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English
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In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Litongo move to a new village which, to some, seems cursed, but where thirteen-year-old Shida, a healer, and her female cousins are allowed to attend school. Includes glossary and author's note.
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English
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Susan Wittig Albert delights mystery lovers with this series based on the life and stories of beloved English children's author Beatrix Potter. When Beatrix finds an abandoned infant, Captain Woodcock and Dimity care for the child as Beatrix and her furry and feathered friends search for its mother.
95) Rocky waters
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"All day at school, Rocky stares out the window, imagining fishing boats sailing across the sky. He wants nothing more than to fish for lobster with his dad, and finally one season he's old enough to go along. Before dawn, Rocky, Dad and sister Patsy untie their boat and head out to sea. Surrounded by the vast expanse of sky and water, Rocky feels as free as a seagull. His dad steers toward their first buoy, then pulls up a line of traps full of lobster....
98) Uroczysko
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Polish
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Gdzieś u podnóża Sudetów, w Malowniczem, jest pensjonat Uroczysko - miejsce, które zmienia życie ludzi. Majka od dłuższego czasu ma wrażenie, że przyciąga wszystkie możliwe nieszczęścia. Zdradzona i porzucona przez męża, sama musi wychowywać nastoletnią córkę. Nie radzi sobie ze spłatą kredytu, przez co komornik chce odebrać im dom. Dosłownie cały świat wali jej się na głowę. Postanawia wyjechać w Sudety do uroczego Malowniczego....
100) The reaper
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English
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Otis Joy, the popular and handsome young rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Oxford, England, is accused of embezzling church funds and ordered to resign, but only until the bishop who accuses him commits suicide, followed by another death, and then another.
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